X-Nico

unusual facts about Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind, ca. 1400-1600



Alterkülz

Sebastian Furck (about 1600-1655), 17th-century copper engraver born in Alterkülz

Ansarlu

The Ansarlu or Ansaroğlu are Oghuz Turks adherent of Twelver Shī‘ism.This tribe belongs to a branch of the Oghuz Turks, belonging to the Qizilbash people of Afghanistan.

Battle of Bileća

It was the first facing of Turks at Rudine, the Bosnians, although fewer, finally fought near the town of Bileća and gave them a defeat, which delayed the Ottomans' advances into Bosnia.

Cerasi Chapel

The chapel was purchased in July 1600 by Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, Consistorial Advocate and Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII.

Clan Fergusson

There were Fergussons all over southern Carrick by 1600, who all acknowledged Fergusson of Kilkerran as their clan chief.

Claude de Visdelou

He collected from Chinese historians unique documents on the peoples of Central Asia and Eastern Asia: Huns, Tatars, Mongols, and Turks.

Clubmans

Sports 1600 gave way to "K Sports" with a Rover K-series engine and the 16-valve two-litre Vauxhall temporarily replaced the 1700 cc Crossflow unit in 1993 for the short-lived rear-engined Supersports category.

Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg

Eleanor Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg (7 August 1600 in Amberg - 17 July 1657 in Strelitz) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Emigration from Kosovo

As the population of Kosovo mainly consisted of Kosovar Albanians, emigrant population was of a corresponding composition, with about 90% Albanians besides smaller numbers of Kosovo Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, Turks etc.

Filo

"The Taste for Layered Bread among the Nomadic Turks and the Central Asian Origins of Baklava", in A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (ed. Sami Zubaida, Richard Tapper), 1994.

Friedrich Spanheim

Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.

Gaspé, Quebec

In 1600, Englishman Richard Hakluyt used the name Gaspay in his translation of Cosmosgraphie by Jean Alfonse, which became the common spelling in the early 17th century.

Gilbert Clayton

In this role, he worked with many of the people that helped to trigger the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks.

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo (1600, Cambrai – 1648, Madrid), was a Flemish Baroque painter active in Rome.

Global spread of H5N1 in 2007

May 3, 2007:"Ghana's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in sick chickens by local laboratories and a US naval laboratory in Egypt, a World Health Organisation official said overnight. Some 1600 birds had already been incinerated as part of efforts to control the outbreak on a farm 20km east of Ghana's capital Accra, near the port of Tema".

Hookerian

Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican priest and influential theologian

Jan Baptist Verrijt

Jan Baptist Verrijt (Rotterdam c.1600-1650) was a Dutch composer and organist of the St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

José Acosta

José de Acosta (1539-1600), Jesuit naturalist and missionary in Latin America

Juan Bautista

He was also a definitor of the province, and became Guardian of Tezcuco twice (1595 and 1606), of Tlatelolco (1600), and of Tacuba in 1605.

Juditha triumphans

On 18 August, under the leadership of count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, the decisive battle was won and the Turks abandoned the island.

Kosovo Myth

The Kosovo Myth or Kosovo Testament is a traditional belief of the Serbian people asserting that the Battle of Kosovo symbolizes a martyrdom of the Serbian nation in defense of their honor and Christendom against Turks (non-believers).

Kotkapura

The historic words that Guru Gobind Singh Ji are said to have uttered on this occasion are memorable: "I have torn the blue clothes which I wore, and with that the rule of the Turks and Pathans is at an end".

KQKS

The station was also once simulcast on 1600AM, later KCKK and now (since January 1, 2007) KEPN, "1600The Zone."

KXTA

KTUB, a radio station (1600 AM) licensed to Centerville, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KXTA from September 2005 to November 2007

KZ Manager

KZ Manager is a name shared by many similar resource management computer games putting the player in the role of a Nazi concentration camp "manager", where the "resources" to be managed include, depending on the version of the game, prisoners (either Jews, Turks or Gypsies), poison gas supplies, "normal" money and various equipment, as well as "public opinion" on the "productivity" of the camp.

Lust's Dominion

If Lust's Dominion is The Spanish Moor's Tragedy by another name, it may have been influenced by the August 1600 arrival in London of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Ambassador of Muley Ahmad al-Mansur, King of Barbary or Morocco.

Manya Shochat

In World War I, the Turks deported the Shochats and others who were Russian nationals to Bursa, in Turkey.

Mary Fitton

In June 1600 Mary led a dance in the masque celebrating the fashionable wedding of Lady Anne Russell, granddaughter of the Earl of Bedford, with Henry Somerset, later created Marquess of Worcester, at Lord Cobham's residence in Blackfriars.

Mary Sidney

Mary's husband died in 1600 leaving her, John Aubrey reported, with less financial support than she might have expected (through views on its adequacy vary).

Matthew Browne

In 1600 he was appointed deputy lieutenant of Surrey to Lord Charles Howard.

MCP-1600

Used in the Pascal MicroEngine, the original Alpha Microsystems AM-100, and the DEC LSI-11 microcomputer, a cost-reduced and compact implementation of the DEC PDP-11.

Mucciolo

Somewhere between 1600 and 1750 a branch of the Mucciolo settled in Castel San Lorenzo, located in Salerno just outside of Naples, where over 70 families of the Mucciolo line are known to live today.

Nelly's

She went to study photography in Germany under Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler, in 1920-1921, before the 1922 expulsion of the ethnic Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turks following the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922).

New Zealand 1000 Guineas

The 1000 Guineas is a set-weights Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies run over a distance of 1600 m at Riccarton Park in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Obedience Robbins

Robbins was born shortly before April 26, 1600 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England.

Order of the Yellow Ribbon

The Order of the Yellow Ribbon was founded in 1600 in Nevers by the French-Italian nobleman Charles III, Duke of Nevers, nephew of the French king Henry III, and knights would be imposed very peculiar duties.

Pakhli

After the Karlugh Turks were overthrown, the Swati tribes established their rule in the plains of Pakhli and mountains of Kaghan valley.These areas were then divided between Swatis and Syeds.

Palafox

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600 – 1659), a Spanish bishop, politician and writer in colonial Mexico

Pantelleria

In 1123 Roger of Sicily took the island, and in 1311 an Aragonese fleet, under the command of Lluís de Requesens, won a considerable victory here, and his family became princes of Pantelleria until 1553, when the town was sacked by the Turks.

Pharaonist movement

The Egyptians came subsequently under the influence of brief successions of foreign rulers including Nubians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, French and British.

Post-Individualism

The Oxford English Dictionary (1971) notes the adjective "individual" in 1425 referring to the Catholic Trinity, in 1600 to a mate who could not be separated from the spouse and not until 1613 as describing a particular person in contrast to a group.

Prince Islands

Many Turks fondly remember the Islands as home to famous short-story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and football legend Lefter Küçükandonyadis.

Ramon Muntaner

The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.

Tales of the Otori

The name "Hidden" for the secretly held religious system of belief probably comes from the title that Christians once held in feudal Japan, "Kakure Kirishitan," literally "Hidden Christians." First Catholics and soon Protestants as well were persecuted by the Tokugawa family after the battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

The Master of the Monolith

...and I read, too, of the lost, grim black cavern high in the hills where the horrified Turks hemmed a monstrous, bloated, wallowing toad-like being and slew it with flame and ancient steel blessed in old times by Muhammad, and with incantations that were old when Arabia was young.

The Polish Rider

A “soldier of Christ”, an idealistic representation of mounted soldiers defending Eastern Europe against the Turks, or simply a foreign soldier have been suggested.

Turkish Abductions

This event is popularly known in Iceland as Tyrkjaránið – the 'Turkish Raid', as it was launched from areas within the Ottoman Empire, although no Turks are known to have been involved.

Ushrusaniyya

In June 870, the Ushrusaniyya rallied to defend the caliph al-Muhtadi (r. 869-870) when the Turks under Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir revolted, but they were defeated and the caliph was killed.

Vyacheslav Molotov

In January 1941, the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden visited Turkey in an attempt to get the Turks to enter the war on the Allies' side.


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